George & Lauren came to town and brought their Dachshund, Lucy. She’s a good puppy, so I decided to take some pet portraits of her. George helped me find the last couple of jumps I needed on Burnout Paradise. Heck yes!

-JG

This is my mom and stepdad’s new dog.  She’s an Irish/Glen Terrier mix and she’s as sweet as ever.  She looks like a puppet and is very well behaved.  I got to meet her earlier this evening, and wanted to post at least one of these photos while my memory cards are downloading from the weddings I photographed this past weekend.  Downloading from memory cards means more photos for you to see in the near future.  In the meantime enjoy this one.

As for her name…her rescuers named her that, and my parent’s nor I thought it would be very nice to her to change her name that she has been used to for the past two years.

Goodnight.

-JG

Literally speaking that is.

Below is a shot that I took at a wedding last weekend. The sky was pretty overcast with that familiar humid-haze-white. I know overcast and white don’t necessarily make sense together, but that’s the way the sky comes out when you are exposing for a pelican flying over. If you are letting enough light into the camera to make dark brown feathers brown instead of black, then the sky behind that pelican is bound to whiten up or “blow out” as we photo nerds tend to say.

So the first shot represents the original and the second shot represents a little Photoshop added to the mix. I think it came out pretty well. I combined the pelican shot with one of some clouds I took last year. I made the clouds very subtle as not to make otherwise impossible lighting in the photo. These clouds were breathtaking and unbelievably large hovering over our house like a fleet of Zeppelins. Those cloud pics are below too.

-JG